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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

As we have seen, Pharaoh's magicians were able to deceive
everyone, apart from Moses (pbuh) and those who believed in
him. However, his evidence broke the spell, or "swallowed up
what they had forged," as the verse puts it:

We revealed to Moses: "Throw down your staff." And it im-
mediately swallowed up what they had forged. So the
Truth took place and what they did was shown to be false.
(Surat al-A‘raf, 117-118)

As we can see, when people realized that a spell had been cast
upon them and that what they saw was just an illusion, Pharaoh's
magicians lost all credibility. In the present day too, unless those
who, under the influence of a similar spell, believe in these ridicu-
lous claims under their scientific disguise and spend their lives de-
fending them, abandon their superstitious beliefs, they also will be
humiliated when the full truth emerges and the spell is broken. In
fact, world-renowned British writer and philosopher Malcolm
Muggeridge also stated this:
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the ex-
tent to which it's been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the
history books in the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy
and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible
credulity that it has. 168
That future is not far off: On the contrary, people will soon see
that "chance" is not a deity, and will look back on the theory of evo-
lution as the worst deceit and the most terrible spell in the world.
That spell is already rapidly beginning to be lifted from the shoul-
ders of people all over the world. Many people who see its true
face are wondering with amazement how they could ever have
been taken in by it.

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